The title of this recording is "Gilbert Smith - New Zealands AIDS Memorial Quilt". It is described as: Gilbert Smith talks about the history of the quilt in New Zealand and promotes an upcoming silent auction fundraising event. It was recorded in Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand on the 1st October 1993. Gilbert Smith is presenting.  Their name is spelt correctly but may appear incorrectly spelt later in the document. The duration of the recording is 5 minutes, but this may not reflect the actual length of the proceedings. A list of correctly spelt content keywords and tags can be found at the end of this document. A brief description of the recording is: In this radio interview Gilbert talks about the history of the quilt in New Zealand and promotes an upcoming silent auction fundraising event. The source of this recording is unknown (possibly a radio station in Auckland). If you know the radio station, or who the interviewer is please get in contact. The content in the recording covers the 1990s decade. A brief summary of the recording is: The abstract covers a recording made on October 1, 1993, featuring an interview with Gilbert Smith on the topic of the New Zealand AIDS Memorial Quilt project. The project, initiated in New Zealand in 1988 following its foundation in the United States in 1985, serves as a poignant memorial to individuals who have succumbed to AIDS. Smith shares that at the time of the recording, the quilt featured 72 panels representing 128 names of people from New Zealand lost to the disease. Each panel is a confluence of 8 quilts, collaboratively crafted by friends and family members as an expression of their love, grief, and at times, anger over their loss. The quilts are not merely commemorative items; they are used actively as educational tools within high schools. By touring the quilts around the country and presenting them to the youth, the project aims to humanize the AIDS crisis and promote awareness among a critical demographic. The response to this approach has been overwhelmingly positive, prompting the organization to seek additional funds to expand the educational outreach to more schools, particularly in the south of the country. Contributors to the quilt are the bereaved loved ones of those who have passed away from AIDS. These individuals pour their emotions into the creation of quilts, and when they feel ready, they entrust the quilt to the project, making it a custodian of their narratives and of the broader human story of the AIDS virus. Smith notes that this initiative resonates on a global scale, with similar quilt projects in the United States and other countries. Highlighting the international solidarity in the fight against AIDS, Smith mentions a significant display of quilts from 27 countries in Washington, emphasizing the worldwide impact of the epidemic. Additionally, they bring attention to encouraging developments in AIDS research, noting some promising studies being conducted, including findings concerning prostitutes in Nairobi and insights into how the virus invades healthy immune cells. To support the ongoing effort to educate and commemorate, the organization has planned a fundraising event, a silent auction, and cabaret scheduled for the following Saturday at the Mandala New Market. The event promises to be an engaging evening, featuring notable figures such as Jeannette McDonald and Gary McCormick, as well as performances by the cast of the television show Shortland Street. Attendees of the fundraiser will have the opportunity to bid on over 200 items, enjoy music played by a big band, and partake in food and drinks. The quilt’s significance is further underscored by a symbolic Tapestry centerpiece by Robert Ellis, which encapsulates the collaborative spirit between all genders in the community, drawing on the Maori tradition of weaving to represent unity and strength in the face of adversity. The full transcription of the recording follows.  It includes timestamps every thirty seconds in the format [HH:MM:SS].  The transcription begins:  Tell us about your project. The quilt project, right. The New Zealand Corp project was started in 1988 in New Zealand. Um, it was originally founded in the United States in 1985 and it was founded as a memorial to the people we lost through AIDS and, um, in New Zealand. Um, we currently have, uh, 72 panels, and that represents 100 and 28 names in New Zealand. 100 and 2800 and 28 names we have on the panels. The panels consist of, [00:00:30] um, 88 quilts make up a panel, and the panels are they tour the country and we have put them into the high schools. We take them into the high schools, and we use them as an educational tool, um, to place awareness where it's most needed with the youth of the, um of the country to put a human face to the AIDS virus and to educate, um, in that way. What sort of response have you had? A terrific response. Um, we [00:01:00] are currently trying to raise more funds to take the, um, the panels through more schools throughout New Zealand. Um, we've done most of the high schools in the Auckland area And, uh, and, uh, the lower half of the the lower half of the North Island. We're gradually working our way through there, and hopefully, um, we plan to do the south Island, um, into the next next year. But, of course, it all, um, takes a little bit of money there. Um, [00:01:30] who's working on the quilt? Who actually puts it right. The quilts are made. They're put together by loved ones. Family and friends all get together and they make a quilt. Um, not everyone, of course, makes a quilt for someone for various reasons in their life. But, um, the quilts are created out of love, and it's a way of expressing their grief or their anger at losing a loved one. And then when they feel the time is right, they actually give [00:02:00] the quilt to the quilt project, and we become the custodians of the quilt. And, um, it just puts this human face on the AIDS virus. It's also parallels in other countries. They're also putting together quilts. Are they? Yes, they are in the United States. Last year, they, um they had, um a big, um, stage of quilts, um, put on in Washington last October and they had 16 acres. Um, set aside to display the quilt, [00:02:30] um, from 27 countries around the world. So, um, we, uh, are not isolated in the virus. So the courts project was started to put a human face to the AIDS virus and very good educate some interesting research lately finding prostitutes in Nairobi, about 29 of them. Very encouraging. Very encouraging indeed. And also being able to find a little bit about how the virus replicates and how the virus invades [00:03:00] healthy cells in the immune system. So those are two promising lines of research, so hopefully they're on to something there. We have a fund raising, um, silent auction and Cabaret, which goes on sat this coming Saturday in the Mandalay new market. Um, so we hope that people will come along and, um, enjoy the night. We have Jeannette McDonald and Gary McCormick. Um, they're going to [00:03:30] be there and keep the evening buzzing along. We have the whole cast of Shortland Street. They're doing a sketch called, um, that's based on all the lost bits that they haven't done in Shortland Street. So that's going to be, um, really good. Grant Bridge is going to be there. The big band, where and when will that be? Uh, this is this coming Saturday at the Mandala New Market, and it kicks off from 7 30 will go through till [00:04:00] the early hours of the morning, and it's called a auction. And if people are not aware what a silent auction is, they're given a bid card as they come in the door with a number on it. And, um, there are sheets on the tables beside the item that they wish to bid for, and they just write their bid number and how much they want to bid for it. And it's, um, there will be over 200 items on display on the tables, and they just have a good time. The big band plays away and they [00:04:30] go around and the bars open. There'll be food. We very much appreciate Robert Ellis's Tapestry in the Centre, which shows us what men and women can do together when they weave together. It's an old Maori idea, too, to weave, weave, weave, unite tu tu tu tu. So thanks for weaving this discussion with us tonight. Gilbert Smith. Thank you very much. See you Saturday night, seven. Thank you. At the Mandalay. The full transcription of the recording ends. A list of keywords/tags describing the recording follow. These tags contain the correct spellings of names and places which may have been incorrectly spelt earlier in the document. The tags are seperated by a semi-colon: 1990s ; AIDS Memorial Quilt ; Aotearoa New Zealand ; Auckland ; Gilbert Smith ; HIV / AIDS ; Māori ; New Zealand AIDS Memorial Quilt ; People ; Scotland ; Youth ; anger ; bars ; cabaret ; energy ; face ; family ; food ; friends ; fundraising ; grief ; hope ; love ; memorial ; other ; plan ; quilt ; research ; straight ; time ; weaving ; women. The original recording can be heard at this website https://www.pridenz.com/aids_memorial_quilt_gilbert_smith.html. The master recording is also archived at the Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington, New Zealand.  For more details visit their website https://tiaki.natlib.govt.nz/#details=ecatalogue.1089252. 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